Lesson 1 Business Resources

Discovery Exercises

1) I found that the directions were a little misleading in how to get to the datamonitor report. Once there I clicked on the Company Profiles and was set to find my info.

Peter Klein became CFO in 2009 and before that he spent 13 years in Corporate Finance in Seattle primarily in Communications and the technology sectors including Medaw Dellular, Orca Bay Capital and several startups including Homegrocer.com where he was the vice president and treasurer.

2) Since we are in a Middle School Library setting most students are just going to go to the search bar and type handicrafts, not go to the database. That being said I did find some articles related to selling goods online.  The first one was State of the Market and I really had to read into this one to find that you could sell your work at web based galleries or online auctions such as ebay .  They could sell their work in person at galleries or local craft events.  If you change your source to books and search you will find chapters that relate to starting a crafts business.  Chapter 17: 199 Internet based businesses you can start with less than one thousand dollars.  We didn't think that the last part to this question really related to the middle school setting. We don't necessarily work with small business owners.

3) I found that using the browse by category was much easier and intuitive.  I chose the Business area category and then Industry Info and Small Business Type.  This category would be most helpful to us because of our SBPC Class here at our school.  When looking at the popular resources for books I found that Legal forms and Patent, copyright and trademark might be helpful to us as a middle school library.

4) The law requires that the landlord or his agent must: give the tenant a copy of any written rental agreement, abide by the lawful terms of the agreement, keep the tenant informed of any change in the landlord’s or his agent’s address, make sure the premises are ready for the tenant when the rental agreement takes effect, ensure that the tenant’s enjoyment of the premises is not disturbed, maintain a fit premises, give adequate notice of a rent increase, give the required notice before demanding that a tenant move out and return the tenant’s security deposit and/or prepaid rent when the tenant moves out, and/or give a complete written accounting of money held for accrued rent, damages and the cost of repair within the time limit required by law.

Two examples of fraud or scams that I've heard a lot about are Fake check scams and Investment Scams.  The consumer resource link lists many places that you can file a consumer report, including the FTC and the BBB. The Consumer Complaint link takes you directly to a form to file a complaint.

5) In the municipality of Anchorage there are 64,427 female workers. I live in Eagle River and would have liked to have the option to chose that area but I guess we are lumped in with Anchorage.  Our top employer would be none other than my very own, Anchorage School District.

6) The stages are as follows: Think, Launch, Grow, Reinvent, and Exit. Under the tools tab at the top is your checklist for starting a small business.

7) First publication was Rural Broadband: Opportunities for Alaska and second is Broadband Policies for the North: A Comparative Analysis.  Yes small scale modular nuclear power has been considered as an option.  This research is not really relevant to the middle school student but possibly for the HS student during certain research.

8) If we are thinking about this question in the school setting for students not really, but, if we are thinking about the teachers using it personally then maybe.  Definitely would be helpful for the community members.